DAGUPAN’S REENACTED BUDGET TO END THE Sangguniang Panlungsod finally passed Dagupan City’s 2022 P1.380 billion annual budget unanimously but not without an attempt by the minority to append to the approved budget what it referred to as a “Minority Report”. Ordinance No. 2244-2022, authorizing the annual budget of the City…

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED –Vice Mayor and Sangguniang Panlungsod presiding officer Bryan Kua is flanked by city councilors and barangay captains as he signs Ordinance No. 2244-2022 that authorized the passage of the 2022 annual budget of the city of Dagupan after it was approved unanimously in a special session on June…
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
THE Liga ng mga Barangay of Dagupan headed by Punong Barangay Marcelino Fernandez slammed the Pamana Water Corporation (PWC) anew in connection with its application for franchise as well as for water rate increase and called for its denial. This was gleaned from its expounded opposition on June 2, filed…
Dagupan’s kapitans slam Pamana anew in expounded petition
UNCOLLECTED TRASH PILING UP THE garbage collection problem in Dagupan City’s 31 barangays continues to worsen as wastes brought to the city’s Barangay Material Recovery Facilities (BMRFs) are left uncollected by the Waste Management Division (WMD) over the last two weeks. Reason? The city government does not provide fuel for…
No fuel for garbage trucks in the city, say
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod decided to finally approve the Annual Investment Program (AIP) of the City of Dagupan in the total amount of P1,457,168,766.00 in its regular session on Tuesday, June 7, without further clarification from the members of the city hall’s finance committee who continued to snub its invitations. Councilor…
Dagupan’s 2022 AIP finally approved
WITH less than two weeks left before stepping down head of the Department of Health (DOH), outgoing Secretary Francisco T. Duque III mulls teaching in their family-owned university, the Lyceum-Northwestern University in Dagupan City. As a co-terminus cabinet official under outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, he is also set to…
DOH Sec. Duque soon “Prof. Duque”
A Pangasinense joins the Marcos government. President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. appointed ABONO Partylist Rep. Conrado Estrella III as Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary. Estrella served as one of the Deputy Speakers of the House of Representatives in the 18th Congress. He served as representative of the 6th District…
Marcos names Estrella as DAR chief

WHEN SUMMER IS GONE — A group of bikers with family members settle for a cool breezy morning at the Tondaligan Beach in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
WHEN SUMMER IS GONE
THE Dagupan City Health Office (CHO) strongly denied a baseless claim on social media that expired Moderna vaccine was being administered at the Dagupan City People’s Astrodome. Dr. Dalvie Casilang, officer-in-charge of Dagupan CHO, said the vaccination team received the supply of vaccine June 6, 2022 from the Department of…
No ‘expired’ vax in Dagupan
NO EXPIRED VAX THE Department of Health-Center for Health Development Region 1 (CHD) gave its categorical assurance that the alleged ‘expired vaccine’ issue in Dagupan City that drew flak among netizens recently is without basis. Dr. Rheuel Bobis, in an interview Thursday, June 9, said the city’s public information office…